This is the revised version, I plan on continueing in the near future, but for now I''m a bit suck…

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Soul of The Monarch Part 3

Leaving already?

When Komo finally woke up all the way, she lay on a bright pink couch with a blanket covering her. The first thing she noticed was a huge bruise on her head from landing on it when she passed out. "Where am I?" She muttered, dazed and looked around. Rosie walked through the door in a few moments.

"Your finally awake Ko! You passed out and Bob helped me carry you in from the rain." she explained.

Komo finally got her senses in order and she remembered what had happened. She looked at Rosie. It was only a flash, but she saw her as a fox. Komo looked at herself tiredly. Her hair was a ratty heap but she also had very small, almost insignificant monarch butterfly wings in dark crimson and black. She fell of the couch in shock, "Why do I have wings?!" She yelled, still in shock.

Rosie stared at her and put her hand to her forehead. "Komo, you'd better rest a bit longer. You must of hit your head really hard. I have to go to work, Bob offered to help you." She said and walked out the door.

"She can't see?" Komo whispered. Jomo the cockroach crawled up to her nose and nip her.

"Only ones who know about this understand enough to see. Other wise you see what you think you'll see. Rosie has no idea of all this and you shouldn't tell her." Jomo explained.

"Jomo, why can I understand you? Now that I think about it, why do you understand me?" Komo said.

"We're of the same fate almost. I was human at a point. Your different though, you might, just might be able to stay in the middle." He explained and crawled to her forehead.

Bob walked in; he had a plate with a big pile of fish kabobs. "I have lunch. I know it isn't very all around nutritious and all that, but its all I can cook. You might not have realized but your hearing Jomo think, it'd be best for what's left of your rep around here if you just keep a telepathic link with him. Oh and all the guys are having a cockroach tournament down at the bar beneath the museum, wanna come, there's a big prize of 30,000 bells!" He said.

"Thirty thousand bells…" Komo said, drooling at the thought. "I have a cacaroch tournament to win!" She straightened up her hair a bit and ran out the door.

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She was at the museum bar in no time, even without a map. She hoped down the stairs and saw cooper and Nook staring intently at a pair of cockroaches. She heard Jomo again, "They're more foolish normal cockroaches I can beat them."

Komo was about to say something when she remembered what Bob had said, a telepathic link… I'm sure you can. She thought. Lets beat them monarch style!

Finally Nook looked up at her, "Your head healed already? Why aren't you at work?!' He said.

"Why aren't you, cheap taukai?" She said coolly. "I'm here for the tournament." Jomo crawled down to the table and shoved the other cockroaches out of the ring easily.

"She seems pretty good. Come on Nook be a good sport and let the girl compete." Said copper.

"Hum, more like let her lose. But we might as well. Battle royal style?"

"I'm in. Komo, Twerp?" replied copper.

Komo and Twerp nodded. Battle royal is the easiest of them all to win. Just let them beat each other till one stands. Komo thought. She was already drunk from sensing the roach's bloodlust. An unfortunate side effect of telepathy…

Jomo bit her. What's that for?!

Don't give in to emotion so easily. Jomo said and crawled to the side of the ring. All the other bugs raced to the center, egger to fight for reasons unknown…

The bugs began to get pushed out of the ring one by one till one was left. Jomo tackled it out of the ring. He was nearly unharmed.

"Whoa, a girlwon the tournament." Said copper, astonished.

"My Kazeko lost…" Said Twerp.

"Well, she won, I'll take out enough to pay off your mortgage, leaving… You have 1000 bells. That's enough for… A train ticket and nothing more…"Nook said. He handed Komo 1000 bells from the sack of prize money.

Later…

Komo wandered back to her house and began to flip through the diary that Bob must have put back on her shabby desk. She yawned and began to leaf through the pages before the transformation mentioned was done,

When I woke up today, you wouldn't believe it, I had cat ears! No one else could see though… It was weird… I could also understand the rats in my basement. It was kinda cool! Then great-grandfather Nook said to go to another town and fast… Man The Nooks really like the name Nook. Anyway, this is the last time I'll write in Johto. I remember nothing about the city where I came from. I don't remember a thing, but I'm sure I will when I find it…

I don't know where I'll be when I write next…I'll come back someday… I'll have a reason too… I'm sure I can find this 'birthplace city' of mine though!

Komo yawned and closed the book. She glanced at the square of moonlight covering her mostly bare floor. It faded to the brighter light of the stove/fireplace in the center of the room. She took the bit of mirror out of her pocket. She sneezed abruptly and accidentally threw the shard into the moonlight. It began to glow. When the light hit her, she yelped as she felt the strange butterfly wings grow slightly. She fell off her chair and kicked it out of the light.

Komo stared at the bit of mirror. Hey, feel stronger too… She thought absentmindedly. It was the middle of the night and all her fracture had vanished. She dug through the desk and wrapped the shard safely in some scraps of cloth and a small string. This could come in handy… She looked around her small room one last time. I have to leave here… I'm human and that I'll stay… She grabbed a small satchel and threw in a bunch of oranges and her fishing rod.

She walked out her door and right into Rose. Rose fell backward. Komo grabbed her bejeweled diamond switchblade and held an attack stance. Rose stared at the larger girl, stunned. Komo began to make out Rose's identity…

"What are you doing out so late Ko? I came to see if your heads better but I'm guessing so." She noticed the switchblade, being held with the tip directed at her neck. "Why do you have that?..." her voice quivering with a strange fear.

Komo hadn't realized shed even drawn a weapon. She had done so out of instinct. "It's a long story. I'm going to another town so I can keep from turning into a butterfly and…" Komo stopped herself too late…

"So that's what you meant! You have wings like I have these fox ears all of a sudden! Bob just filled me in when I asked him if he knew what you were saying. I'm gonna be a fox! Can I travel with you, Ko? I can't go alone, not again…"

Thank the heavens she didn't ask anymore about my prize… Komo thought, clutching her switchblade and silently putting it back in her pocket. "Uh… Well, sure, I guess…" She said. It's been so long since another human would be so open… I get the feeling my days as Monarch of the flame aren't yet over…

Rose nodded and both looked at the dim and flickering lights that indicated the train station… Komo stared at them, and could have sworn she saw a fire within the pale yellow orb…

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This will make sense soon… -er than later… If I manage the next chapter in the way I intend it should clear a bit up…

…I can still beg for reviews even after the wait can't I?

-Nekoji Out